All the more complicated when one realizes that some texts have been abridged (censored?) for Kindle or Nook. Worth noting! -R.C. Dr. Raymond J. Cormier "First Gent Emeritus" Longwood University-VA NEW ADDRESS: 237 Stable Rd. Carrboro, NC 27510-4144 TEL. 919-942-6746 http://www.longwood.edu/longwood/winter07/ http://www.longwood.edu/18176.htm ________________________________________ From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of NORMAN [normanhinton@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 13:56 To: dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: Re: [dm-l] TAN: How does one reference a location in an electronic book on Kindle or iPad?
Perhaps this occurs only in journals of literary scholarship -- but if I cite a recent reprint of a book or article, almost inevitably the editor or the readers insist that I go back to the original edition and make it the basis of my citations. I have always thought this was silly, as the more recent reprint may be the only available form in which most people can read the article -- but perhaps in the case of a Kindle edition, when it is actually an older print edition, one should seek out the original IF ONE CAN FIND OUT. I recently looked at a Kindle version of a translation of Aristophanes "The Knights", which Amazon advertised as "new". It was almost certainly not new, but there was no way at all of finding out where or when the print version had been done, or even who translated it. Amazon is doing no one a fvor with this kind of policy.
-- Norman Hinton
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